US Patent Issued to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES on July 14 for "Method for gasifying biomass" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,038, issued on July 14, was assigned to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES (Paris).

"Method for gasifying biomass" was invented by Thierry Chataing (Grenoble, France), Gilles Ratel (Grenoble, France) and Thomas Robin (Toulon, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Gasification method comprising the following steps of: a) bringing, in a main reactor, beads made of steel, an alloy, glass or ceramic, at a temperature between 600deg C. and 1,000deg C., into contact with a feedstock mixture comprising water and a biomass, the biomass comprising an organic part and salts, the main reactor being pressurised to mor...